Monday, July 29, 2019

Ecology and Pollution related links 072919



Breaching a “carbon threshold” could lead to mass extinction: Study finds that carbon dioxide emissions may trigger a reflex in the carbon cycle, with devastating consequences.

It’s the End of the World as They Know It: The distinct burden of being a climate scientist

State of Emergency Declared After Large Earthquake Rocks Southern California, Massive Aftershocks

Tree planting 'has mind-blowing potential' to tackle climate crisis: Research shows a trillion trees could be planted to capture huge amount of carbon dioxide

Humanity Has Killed 83% of All Wild Mammals and Half of All Plants: Study.  Of all the birds left in the world, 70% are poultry chickens and other farmed birds.

87 Percent of Americans Unaware There's Scientific Consensus on Climate Change (a 2017 article)

VOORTREKKER WEEP Don Clarke

Scientific Consensus: Earth's Climate is Warming

Global warming is already having significant and harmful effects on our communities, our health, and our climate.

THE 12 QUESTIONS Every Climate Activist Hears and What to Say

Free Energy! Tesla's Principles Magnet Perpetual Motion Machine REAL!!! *MUST WATCH*

Perpetual Motion and Nikola Tesla (Tapping Infinite Energy)

FREE ENERGY WHEEL ~ Using Ring Magnets ~ EXPOSED!

Government Watchdog: EPA Broke Ethics Rules as It Replaced Academic Advisers With Industry Appointees

Trump’s EPA clears pesticide tied to children’s health problems

Trump’s EPA Won’t Ban Brain-Damaging Pesticide

Trump's Drilling Leases on Public Lands Could Lead to 4.7B Metric Tons of Carbon Emissions

Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream

200th New York firefighter dies from 9/11 illness as funding debate rages on

West Chester Passes Ban Of Single-Use Plastic Bags And Straws: West Chester is standing up to the state, passing a single-use plastics ban despite a state measure blocking such ordinances for a year.

Can Phoenix Remain Habitable?  You can't crank up the AC forever

'The Numbers Are Just Horrendous.' Almost 30,000 Species Face Extinction Because of Human Activity

It's so hot in Nebraska the National Weather Service was able to bake biscuits in a parked car

Energy dollars fueling presidential contest

Pipe spills oilfield wastewater on pastureland in western North Dakota

Ethiopia Begins Nationwide Project Of Planting 4 Billion Trees To Fight Deforestation

Trump Campaign Is Selling Plastic Straws to ‘Make Straws Great Again’

NASA Releases Time-Lapse Of The Disappearing Arctic Polar Ice Cap

10 Ways Andrew Wheeler Has Decimated EPA Protections in Just One Year

U.S. Soldiers Falling Ill, Dying in the Heat as Climate Warms: At least 17 service members have died from heat illnesses in the past decade, and the rise in heat stress injuries suggests the military isn't prepared for worse.

Netherlands and Belgium record highest ever temperatures: All-time records in Germany and Luxembourg could also fall in continent-wide heatwave

PHILIPPINES PASSES LAW REQUIRING STUDENTS TO PLANT 10 TREES IF THEY WANT TO GRADUATE

How 21 meddling kids could force a climate turnaround

Frank Luntz, the GOP’s message master, calls for climate action

ACTIVISTS CAMPED AT HAWAII’S MAUNA KEA FACE GOVERNMENT OPPOSITION AS THEY ATTEMPT TO BLOCK TELESCOPE CONSTRUCTION ON SACRED LAND

Banned in 160 Nations, Why is Ractopamine in U.S. Pork? (Op-Ed)

Congress Gives Sacred Apache Land to Foreign Mining Company

The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland’s Buried Past and our Perilous Future by Jon Gertner

To Understand Climate Change, We Need to Understand Greenland

The Secrets in Greenland’s Ice: From exploration to Cold War militarization, how the Arctic became the focus of the climate crisis.

Politics related links 072919



With Maduro entrenched in Venezuela, Trump loses patience and interest in issue, officials say

Here are the extremist figures going to the White House social media summit

When conservatives claim censorship, they're often just showcasing their tech ignorance

Report: Fox editors suspect the network’s Seth Rich source may have never existed

MSNBC contributor Hugh Hewitt lets race war fantasizer Kurt Schlichter guest host his radio show: Schlichter has used his hosting spots to promote his race war novel series, which Hewitt has gushed about

Fox & Friends praises Trump's bigoted tweet telling Democratic congresswomen to leave the country

David Corn is Mother Jones' Washington bureau chief and an on-air analyst for MSNBC. He is the co-author (with Michael Isikoff) of Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump. He is the author of three New York Times bestsellers, Showdown, Hubris (with Isikoff), and The Lies of George W. Bush, as well as the e-book, 47 Percent: Uncovering the Romney Video that Rocked the 2012 Election.

'I vote for brains, not boobs': Why the House GOP just failed to add another woman to its ranks

How Trump swallowed the GOP whole, or why Paul Ryan should never be allowed in public life again

Far right's Seth Rich conspiracy claims were planted by Russia's foreign intelligence agency

We still don't know how to fight the 'big lie,' and that's what makes it truly the biggest threat

BENJAMIN FULFORD = Major victory as all three power obelisks fall Washington, London and Rome

Three Presidents Die on July 4th: Just a Coincidence?

Jeffrey Epstein's Little Black Book

Court to unseal up to 2,000 pages of Jeffrey Epstein-related documents

US judge unseals files in case of girl, 17, ‘forced to have sex with Prince Andrew’: Documents from a 2015 libel suit linked to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a friend of the prince, are to be made public

Court Orders Release of Sealed Docs About Jeffrey Epstein’s Alleged Sex Ring: In a blow to the billionaire pedophile and his alleged madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, a federal court ordered the release of sealed court records in a case brought by an alleged victim.

7 TAKEAWAYS FROM VANITY FAIR’S 1990 PROFILE OF DONALD TRUMP

Republican: I'm telling Democrats how to beat Trump in 2020. It's Job One so get over it.  Enough with the progressive wish lists, just focus on winning. The next president is everyone’s business, and we can’t afford to screw it up. Again.

Graham calls Dem congresswomen 'a bunch of communists'

The DNC Army That Could Soon Descend on Swing States: To avoid repeating the errors of 2016, the party is training young people of color to be campaign organizers for the eventual Democratic nominee.

Manafort, Assange held secret talks in Ecuadorian Embassy: report

Let's talk about the America I remember....

READ: House resolution to condemn Trump's racist tweets toward congresswomen

Woody Guthrie~ All You Fascists Bound To Lose

Tear the fascists down - Woody Guthrie

The Thom Hartmann Program (Full Show) - 7/17/19

Rep. Ilhan Omar Has Been A U.S. Citizen Longer Than Melania Trump: Donald Trump presumably doesn’t question his wife’s right to criticize her adopted country.

Rantin' Randy's Rant

Twitter's Jack Dorsey maxes out donations to Tulsi Gabbard, Democratic presidential candidate

ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

'Impeach This President': Target of Racist Attacks, Rep. Ilhan Omar Vows to Hold Trump Accountable for His Crimes

Trump Attacks Congresswomen At N.C. Rally, As Crowd Chants 'Send Her Back'

Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds: New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason.

Rand Paul says 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund price tag too high, blocks Kirsten Gillibrand’s fast track request

The Suffocation of Democracy

Rantin' Randy's Rant 7-18-19

Racism Is Not a Winning Issue for Trump

'It feels like 1930 Berlin': Holocaust survivor says Trump's America reminds him of the years leading up to Nazi domination in Germany

EX-TRUMP OFFICIAL HOPE HICKS APPEARS TO HAVE LIED TO CONGRESS ABOUT HER INVOLVEMENT IN STORMY DANIELS HUSH MONEY PAYMENTS

Trump Puts More GOP Money In His Own Pocket During Another Million-Dollar Golf Trip: An RNC fundraiser could put hundreds of thousands of dollars into his own business, while the getaway will bring his taxpayer-paid golf tab to $109.2 million.

The Thom Hartmann Program (Full Show) - 7/19//19

FBI documents point to Trump role in hush money for porn star Daniels

Lord Acton writes to Bishop Creighton that the same moral standards should be applied to all men, political and religious leaders included, especially since “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely” (1887)

Constitutional Myth #2: The 'Purpose' of the Constitution Is to Limit Congress: What really drives this idea today isn't legal theory; it's the political fear that the people of the United States will enact progressive legislation

CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY

US Constitution, Article II, Section 1 - Before he enter on the execution of his office, he shall take the following oath or affirmation: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."

A Yazidi woman from Iraq told Trump that ISIS killed her family.  “Where are they now,” he asked.

Trump's staff claims they are getting harassed all over Washington

(Americans Are in Denial That) Fascists Took Over America: There are Three Phases of Fascist Collapse. America’s Way Past One. It’s Entering Phase Three.

John Bercow condemns Trump remarks as hateful, loathsome and despicable: The US president has been heavily criticised after he told the Democratic politicians to ‘go back’ to the countries from which they came.

President Trump says Antifa is ‘evil’ and full of ‘sick people’

Virginia church’s sign reads ‘America: Love or leave it’

The Activist Left Already Knows Who It Wants for President: Many of the MSNBC moms and energized youths at the annual Netroots Nation conference have already settled on their top candidate—with a surprising second choice.

Rantin' Randy's Rant 7-20-19 50 years since the Eagle landed on the moon

How Democrats Defeat Donald Trump: Stop talking so much about the America that he’s destroying. Save your breath for the America you want to create.

House Votes To Table Trump Impeachment Resolution: But an increasing number of Democrats voted to debate impeaching the president.

US Ambassador to Singapore, fired by Trump, wears Obama T-shirt as he leaves

Ex-Ecuadorian president confirms Assange meddled in US election from London embassy

The Courts Won’t End Gerrymandering. Eric Holder Has a Plan to Fix It Without Them.  While Democrats are fixated on 2020, Holder is fighting for fairer maps in 2021 and beyond.

Elizabeth Warren Has Momentum. Can She Build a Movement?  The senator from Massachusetts is on the verge of turning her campaign into something much larger.

YOU NEED TO KNOW – THIS IS HOW TRUMP PLANS TO WIN

( SPECIAL SHOW) The Rachel Maddow Show 7/21/19 | The Mueller Report MSNBC Today July 21, 2019

How Fox News fuels Trump's fixation with AOC and Ilhan Omar

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells packed rally: ‘We will not go back, we will go forward’.  ‘The good and bad, America is the hope and despair,’ congresswoman says to 700-strong crowd

Trump's Favorite Things! - A Randy Rainbow Song Parody

'The People Have Spoken': Estimated 400,000 Puerto Ricans Flood Streets to Demand Rosselló Resign Immediately.  "For him to think he can keep governing for another year and a half as if nothing has happened is insulting to our core."

Blair Garner Mayor Pete Buttigieg

Why 2 Trump voters are seeing 2020 very differently

Abortion support is highest it’s been two decades as challenges mount

In 2020, Democrats say they’ll negotiate on values as long as they beat Trump

You chickensh*t Fascists -waited til the 'Greatest Generation' died off to start your BS....

Trump to Cut Medicare and Social Security If Re-Elected

The alt-right has a plan to win 2020, and it involves YOU—so listen up

Why you can't be nice to neo-Nazis or their enablers in the GOP

Trump continues his attacks on four non-white Democratic congresswomen

How the press rewards GOP cowardice in the age of Trump

New study finds states need more funding to protect elections, funding McConnell won't allow

2020 Senate Election Interactive Map

What's Your Name?/Don and Juan

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Another Military Veteran Joins Kentucky US Senate Race

Trump Supporter Decries Socialism....and then Admits He's on Socialist Social Security

As Trump’s reliable sycophant, Rubio drags us further into the president’s swamp | Editorial

What the last Nuremberg prosecutor alive wants the world to know: At 99, Ben Ferencz is the last Nuremberg prosecutor alive and he has a far-reaching message for today’s world

Trump sues House Ways and Means panel to block disclosure of his tax returns

India Calls Out Trump Lie That He Was Asked To Mediate Kashmir Conflict: “No such request has been made” by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the U.S. president, said a spokesman for India’s government, despite what Trump claimed.

I’m the Longest-Serving Republican in the Iowa Legislature, and I’m Switching Parties: There are times when you have to follow the dictates of your conscience. For me, that time has come.

Judicial Watch files House ethics complaint against Rep. Ilhan Omar

WHAT TO KNOW BEFORE MUELLER TESTIFIES: The former special counsel is scheduled to testify.

Trump met with Nunes to talk intel chief replacements: The president's get-together with the top House Intelligence Republican has fueled more chatter that Dan Coats may be on his way out.

Trump Tells High School Students: ‘I Have The Right To Do Whatever I Want As President’

Yet again, Trump falsely blames illegal voting for getting walloped in California

Joe: DOJ protecting Donald Trump politically.  DOJ officials have told the former special counsel they expect him to keep his testimony Wednesday to the findings contained in his report. The Morning Joe panel discusses.

Marianne Williamson: Peacebuilders Will Have a Seat At the Table of Power

What I’d Ask Mueller

Mueller Says Trump Could Be Charged with Obstruction after He Leaves Office

Lindsey Graham Says Social Security, Medicare Are 'Promises We Can't Keep': Let's see how that works out for your re-election campaign, Lindsey.

The campaign against vaccination: Disease will be a major political battleground in the coming decades

Katie Porter isn't part of 'The Squad.' But the freshman House Democrat is stirring up trouble for Trump

Robert Mueller Hearing [10AM] 7/24/19 | Mueller Reports MSNBC News Today July 24, 2019

Read and search the full Mueller report

Trump Jr. Promotes Tweet Attacking Mueller As ‘Mentally Retarded’

Opinion: Does Anyone Actually Want Joe Biden to Be President?  What ‘electability’ seems to mean in 2020 — and what it meant in 2018.

‘Ashdale family tree’: Philadelphia Parking Authority has hired 10 relatives of board chairman Joseph Ashdale

This nation is at the mercy of a criminal administration

Senate Republicans Block Election-Security Bills, Despite Mueller’s Warning

GOP senators block election security legislation hours after Mueller warns of Russian interference

Veterans Condemn Racist Attacks

GOP Senator Blocks Bill Requiring Campaigns To Report Offers Of Foreign Help To FBI: Sen. Marsha Blackburn called the measure aimed at foreign interference in federal elections “overbroad.”

Need a 'Blueprint to Remove Trump'? Look at What Puerto Ricans Did in Just 16 Days: "In less than 16 days, Puerto Rican Gov. Ricardo Rosselló is expected to resign after mass protests. I can't even recall all the horrible shit Trump has done in the last 16 days."

From Trump to Johnson, nationalists are on the rise – backed by billionaire oligarchs: The ultra-rich are benefitting from disaster capitalism as institutions, rules and democratic oversight implode

The Great Hack: Explore how a data company named Cambridge Analytica came to symbolize the dark side of social media in the wake of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

MUST-WATCH: Anchor breaks down live ON AIR over Trump’s tweet

Rantin' Randy's Rant 7-27-19

Georgia election officials accused of destroying evidence in voting machine lawsuit

MITCH MCCONNELL RECEIVED DONATIONS FROM VOTING MACHINE LOBBYISTS BEFORE BLOCKING ELECTION SECURITY BILLS

Republican senator from Kentucky caught helping Russia — and it wasn’t Moscow Mitch this time

What do Republicans have against secure elections?

Nearly 20-States Are On The Verge Of Keeping Trump Off Their Ballots

Trump-Pelosi Deal Raises Debt Limit, But Protects War Machine, Hyde Amendment

Dan Coats to step down, Trump tweets, as President announces Ratcliffe will be nominated as next director of national intelligence

Trump Reportedly Considering TX GOP Rep Who Confronted Mueller at Hearing to Be Next Director of National Intelligence

The Expat Crew Campaigning for Bernie Sanders in France: A handful of progressive activists wants to deliver the overseas vote to the Vermont senator. Can they keep the caucus together?

The attorney general Trump wanted

Hey, Nancy Pelosi: Please Stop Coddling Donald Trump

MSNBC's Donny Deutsch: We're Not Going To "Play Fair" In War To Put Trump In Jail

Sheriff Hopping Mad After Pence Skips Out on $24,000 Bill at $700,000 Campaign Fundraiser

Robert Mueller kneecaps president Trump’s no-collusion no-obstruction mantra

The Betrayal

Trump’s Base Isn’t Enough: The president needs the voters who approve of his record on the economy but disapprove of him overall. His racist attacks this week only hurt that cause.

In Trump's swamp, the corporate lobbyists are in charge 

Trump partied with teen girls at cocaine-fueled romp in ‘90s: report

STATE OF THE RACE

Cummings: 'I'm begging the American people to pay attention'

Terrorism related links 072919



Ocasio-Cortez reminds Trump, 'I come from the United States' after the president suggests congresswomen of color should 'go back' home

Ocasio-Cortez Rips Trump’s Racist Attack: Our Power ‘Makes You Seethe’.  She pointedly noted she was born in the U.S. after a xenophobic Trump rant targeted her and Reps. Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley and Ilhan Omar.

Fox & Friends praises Trump's bigoted tweet telling Democratic congresswomen to leave the United States: Fox & Friends cohost Jedediah Bila says that Trump is "making an important point"

Tucker Carlson: "Ilhan Omar is living proof that the way we practice immigration has become dangerous to this country".  Carlson: "Maybe we are importing people from places whose values are simply antithetical to ours. ... ​No country can import large numbers of people who hate it and expect to survive"

Fox host Jeanine Pirro says that Ilhan Omar's hijab may mean that she's against the Constitution.

Fox News is furious that immigrants are being advised of their rights ahead of planned ICE raids

Florida principal told parent, 'not everyone believes the Holocaust happened.' He's now apologized

MIGRANT DETENTION CENTER INSPECTOR SAYS CHILDREN ARE UNWASHED, SOBBING AND CRITICALLY ILL

The Violence Central American Migrants Are Fleeing Was Stoked by the US: We're still dealing with the aftermath of atrocities committed by US allies in Central America during the Cold War.

Trump moves to effectively end asylum at southern border

Hands on Wisconsin: The GOP's unifying ideology

Scotland and Germany sign joint letter telling Donald Trump not to go back where he came from

Congresswomen hit back after Trump's tweets branded racist

Let's talk about citizens and persons....

McConnell: Trump 'on to something' with attacks on Democratic congresswomen

Trudeau slams Trump's racist remarks to progressive congresswomen: 'That is not how we do things in Canada'

AP: Melania Trump was an undocumented working model in '96

1943 U.S. government-produced film "Japanese Relocation" addresses relocation camps

He tried for years to join his 13-year-old daughter in the US. Now they're finally reunited -- at her deathbed

Trump wants meeting 'ASAP' with Schumer on border crisis

3-Year-Old Asked To Pick Parent In Attempted Family Separation, Her Parents Say

'Vulnerable' Migrants Should Be Exempt From 'Remain In Mexico,' But Many Are Not

'No Meaningful Oversight': ICE Contractor Overlooked Problems At Detention Centers

Rules of Engagement

Iranian Forces Reportedly Seize Foreign Oil Tanker, Crew

Stephen Miller wants zero refugee admissions in 2020. He may (almost) get it: Reports suggest Trump administration may cut refugee admissions by 90%. That's not enough for Stephen Miller

Warplanes from four countries face off in Asian confrontation

Afghanistan asks for explanation after Trump claims US could wipe it 'off the face of the Earth'

Retired 4-star general slams Trump for casually discussing killing 'millions' of people

FBI's Wray says most domestic terrorism arrests this year involve white supremacy

Stephen Miller trashes immigration policy that helped his family: Rachel Maddow reviews the family history of Donald Trump aide Stephen Miller, as told by Miller's uncle to highlight how the openness of the United States to immigrants saved Miller's family from poverty and allowed it to thrive, a policy Miller hopes to end through Donald Trump.

Neighbors Form Human Barricade To Protect Dad And Son From ICE Agents: “I could see if these people were bad criminals, but they’re not. They’re just trying to provide for their kids,” a neighbor told a Nashville TV station.

Stephen Miller defends Trumps attacks on Rep. Omar

MSNBC's Hayes: Trump's base must have heart 'ripped out,' 'destroyed,' and 'banished'.  'They are in too deep. They have shamed themselves too much'

Korean War Armistice Day: July 27

Oregon Becomes Second State in Nation to Support Nuclear Ban Treaty

VFP organizer stands with Cuban vets in solidarity

If Left Unchecked, Trump Will Obliterate the Right to Asylum

Protesters at ICE office in Camarillo to join thousands nationwide

Stunning: Border Patrol Official Accused Of 'Kidnapping' | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC

North Korea Fired 2 Unidentified Projectiles into Sea, South Korea Says

This is Going to Get Worse: “Send her back” is what Trumpism has been all along

Editorial: Trump asylum policy outsources American values

The Administration's New Asylum Rule Exceeds Statutory Authority

The Flaw in Trump’s Intimidation-Based Immigration Strategy

Six executives at nonprofit running shelters for migrant children made at least $1M in 2017

We Could Solve the Israel-Palestine Conflict Tomorrow